At Schupp Company, an advertising agency in downtown St. Louis, you will find a pool table in the lobby, a basketball court on the top floor and couches and easy chairs scattered all around.

It’s an irreverent take on workplace design, well-suited to the free-wheeling world of advertising, but also indicative of the kind of initiative that makes small companies unique. What they lack in size and resources, small companies like Schupp make up for in flexibility and innovative practices. Schupp is also typical of a new breed of small business entrepreneurs who are using communications to make their companies more competitive. Check out how STL Communications helped Shupp Company better their communications. http://www.youtube.com/user/stlcomminc#p/a/u/0/cwopFNISkH8